Food Justice
A basic right of people, a movement striving for the right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food
Food Sovereignty
The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
Healthy Food
Fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate, and locally grown food with care for the land, workers, and animals.
Food Access
A person’s ability to access food while considering many barriers such as geography, transportation, availability of healthy foods, and affordability.
Food Security
Year-round access to enough nutritional and safe food for active, healthy life and the ability to acquire the food in socially acceptable ways (not restoring to emergency food supplies, scavenging, etc.)
Resilient Food System
A food system that can withstand and recover from unforeseen disturbances and changes over time to supply sufficient, appropriate, and accessible food for all.
Food System
The food system encompasses how food moves from farms to tables. It includes farmers and the farmland on which food is grown, manufacturers and processors, distributors – from truckers to grocery stores to food banks – and all residents as…
CEC and county Food Action Network hold virtual webinar to examine the exploitation of agriculture
The Santa Barbara County Food Action Network presented a webinar on food sovereignty and food justice Wednesday evening. Panelists discussed the region’s agriculture as well as national problems in the industry.
2020 Local Hero by the Santa Barbara Independent
Congratulations to Food Rescue Program Coordinator Julia Blanton on being named a 2020 Local Hero by the Santa Barbara Independent. Julia shares this recognition with two other locals dedicated to food security: Food from the Heart Board Chair Kelly Onnen and Foodbank volunteer Elizabeth…
